A new look at ‘the face'

By Mark Hughes Cobb Tusk Editor

The ironies lay so thick you could build a brick courthouse on 'em.

Henry Wells, accused — and very likely guilty of — burning down the Pickens County Courthouse in 1876, saved the structure built to replace it more than a century after his death. Residents who didn't wish to wash Wells' face from the garret stopped a threatened demolition in 2001.

Another irony: Some of those citizens very likely are descended from the folks who threatened Wells, forcing his incarceration in the attic of the courthouse, leading to the incident some say emblazoned his frightened face in that upper window forever.

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